Unexpectedly, just as Huang Xilian, the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, bid farewell, the Marcos government received bad news. The situation in the Philippines was completely out of control and is now out of control, and Marcos had ordered a large-scale arrest action. At present, there has been a fierce conflict between riot police and demonstrators in the Philippines, and the picture has spread all over the world, and the scope of the conflict has spread to more than 20 cities. The Marcos government is already overwhelmed and has encountered the worst crisis since taking office. On September 20th, the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines issued a safety reminder, advising Chinese citizens in the Philippines to avoid going to crowded areas. The situation in the Philippines got out of control overnight. What happened?
According to the report, this protest, called the "Trillion Peso *", is the largest demonstration faced by Philippine President Marcos Jr. since he took office, and the fuse is the corruption scandal of the recently exposed "bean curd residue" project and flood control project in the Philippines.
Originally, this project was supposed to ensure people's safety, but due to collusion between contractors and officials, the dam collapsed, causing serious casualties and property losses. The investigation found that there are a large number of "ghost projects" in this project, and the funds have already been allocated, but not even a brick has been moved on the site. The Philippine Ministry of Finance estimates that since 2023, the losses caused by this corruption case have exceeded 100 billion pesos, equivalent to tens of billions of yuan.
In the rainy season of 2025, floods once again washed away the city's defense lines. Moderate-intensity typhoons collapsed newly built dams in several places, affecting more than 6 million people in Luzon Island, and some neighborhoods in Manila accumulated water as deep as two meters. People watched the budget be "pumped" layer by layer, and finally they didn't even see a decent drainage ditch, so their anger quickly spread.
And it is also clever to choose the time for the protest, 21 September, to know that on this day in 1972, the father of Little Marcos, Old Marcos, issued a national warrant, and this day every year, the Philippines will hold protests against the warrant, and this year, the Marcos government spawned this scandal, forming a stronger wave of protests. That is why the situation has gone out of control, and on the EDSA Avenue in Manila, more than 30,000 people gathered to protest, carrying the sign "Marcos family rush out of Maracanã Palace".
And the government of Marcos also said that to thoroughly examine the end, to give the Philippine people a departure, but the effect is not obvious, the protests are still ongoing. There is even a trend to spread to the country, and in the face of such a large-scale protest, the government of Marcos took tough measures. The Philippine police mobilized more than 50,000 police forces, safeguarding the security throughout the country, the Philippine military also announced the state of "red alert", the national forces cancelled holidays, all in the standby state.
As the marchers arrived near the presidential palace, the police clashed with the protesters. A group of black men suddenly began to shock the police, the scene quickly out of control, and both broke out of intense body clashes. According to preliminary statistics, the conflict resulted in at least 39 police officers injured, and the police arrested more than 210 protesters, including even a large number of minors, enough to illustrate that the Philippines went up and down and were unhappy with the little Marcos, the Philippine Interior Minister Raymore vowed to file individual charges of involvement in the violence.
In the face of the situation in the Philippines, the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines issued a high-level security warning, clearly advising Chinese citizens in the Philippines to avoid traveling to crowded areas and reduce exits.
Just before that, Huang Xilian, Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines, bid farewell and formally called on Philippine Foreign Minister lazaro. Huang Xilian served as ambassador to the Philippines for six years, witnessing the Duterte government's "friendship to China" period, and also experiencing the fluctuations after Marcos Jr. took office. After the Chinese ambassador leaves, China-Philippines relations will also enter a transition period, and the communication mechanism between the two countries may fail in the short term. Against the background of continuous friction in the South China Sea, this vacuum will amplify the risk of misjudgment, and the uncertainty of the future of the Philippines has just begun.